Fool
O
Fool,
try
to
carry
thyself
upon
thy
own
shoulders!
O
beggar,
to
come
beg
at
thy
own
door!
Leave
all
thy
burdens
on
his
hands
who
can
bear
all,
and
never
look
behind
in
regret.
Thy
desire
at
once
puts
out
the
light
from
the
lamp
it
touches
with
its
breath.
It
is
unholy—-take
not
thy
gifts
through
its
unclean
hands.
Accept
only
what
is
offered
by
sacred
love.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 7, 1941, Calcutta) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India. In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.